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		</div><p><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/exjudge-warns-over-rights-conflict.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full" title="Former Lord Chief Justice Lord Woolf fears judges will be placed in a difficult position trying to balance opposing rights" src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/min-exjudge-warns-over-rights-conflict.jpg" alt="Former Lord Chief Justice Lord Woolf fears judges will be placed in a difficult position trying to balance opposing rights"/></a></p>
<p>A former senior judge has warned of a conflict between the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) and Prime Minister David Cameron&#8217;s proposed British Bill of Rights.</p>
<p>Ex-Lord Chief Justice Lord Woolf fears judges will be placed in a difficult position trying to balance opposing rights &#8211; and said it may force the UK to leave the ECHR.</p>
<p>His comments follow the public outcry over the European Court of Human Rights&#8217; ruling last year that serving prisoners should be allowed to vote, a decision Parliament voted to ignore earlier this month.</p>
<p>Lord Woolf, who was Lord Chief Justice from 2000 to 2005, said that he was &#8220;relieved&#8221; at Justice Secretary Ken Clarke&#8217;s pledge on Sunday that there was &#8220;no chance&#8221; of Britain pulling out of the ECHR.</p>
<p>But Mr Clarke said he would seek to kick-start reform of the ECHR to rebalance its relations with national courts when the UK takes over the chairmanship of the Council of Europe in November.</p>
<p>The Government will shortly launch its planned Commission on the creation of a British Bill of Rights, but Mr Clarke said it was not yet clear exactly how such a law would interact with the European Convention.</p>
<p>He added: &#8220;The Government&#8217;s policy is to continue to be a signatory of the European Convention of Human Rights and the Government&#8217;s policy is to have a Commission to investigate the case for a British Bill of Rights and whether that could improve the relationship between Strasbourg and here.&#8221;</p>
<p>But Lord Woolf told the BBC Radio 4 Today programme: &#8220;If you have a further convention &#8211; a British Convention &#8211; there&#8217;s going to be a complication in the position, because you&#8217;re going to have two conventions to which the courts are going to have a regard.</p>
<p>&#8220;We have got a stark option: Either we accept the European Convention, or we don&#8217;t accept it and decide to leave the Council of Europe.</p>
<p>He added: &#8220;I don&#8217;t see any problem about the Commission that is being set up and I was very relieved Mr Clarke indicated there would be no question of us withdrawing form the European Council and the European Convention on Human Rights.&#8221;</p>
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